Field Biodiversity, Museum of Science, Boston

Last updated almost 3 years ago

This is a companion activity for the World Wide Views on Biodiversity. This activity, along with companion activities for 4 other habitats is designed as a fun way to visit your favorite habitat, observe the biodiversity present and share your observations with others via the website iNaturalist.

Download the field guide (activity pages), visit your favorite field and follow the instructions. Then come back to this site and enter your observations in iNaturalist.

I am quite surprised that with 130 photos none of them show the infamous "threat display". The threat display can often times be helpful with identification of a particular subspecies as it will show a particular color pattern that is present on the wings. This is especially true for the female mantid.